title: "Searching for the good players: EVI2B controls granulocytic
differentiation and progenitor functions"

Areas of Research: We investigate how C/EBPs regulate granulocytic production, whether they are mutated or deregulated during leukemogenesis, and how these alterations participate in the development of human acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Dr.
Annalisa di Ruscio:

Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy

title:"ReDirecting DNA methylation"

Area of Research:
to investigate the functional role of DNMT1-interacting RNAs in
leukemogenesis and to pave the way for the development of the first gene-specific
demethylating tool to apply in cancer and other diseases where aberrant DNA methylation
plays a pivotal role.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Behre

Leipzig University Hospital, Germany

Title: Disturbance of the C/EBPalpha-miR-182 balance impairs granulocytic differentiation and promotes development of acute myeloid leukemia

Areas of Research: The role of transcription factor C/EBPalpha and microRNAs in myeloid differentiation and acute myeloid leukemia.

Research Area: hereditary information of plants, its organization and changes, which accompanied evolution of plants and origin of new species. With his team he developed new methods to facilitate the analysis of complex plant genomes and participates in several international consortia aiming at sequencing genomes of important plants.